This fall, a global regulatory body could move to decriminalize the demonized plant for the first time in more than 60 years, ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva admitted Friday that his government "still has a lot to do" for Indigenous ...

The tribe is protected under Indian law to prevent exposure to modern illnesses, which could devastate their population ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

A few hours earlier, I had declared my intention for our ayahuasca journey—that I want to live a big, meaningful, impactful ...

A deadline for Peruvian President Dina Boluarte to make changes or promulgate a bill that is being criticized as a project ...

The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...

Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living between the ...

Guayusa ("gwhy-you-sah") is a caffeine-containing holly species native only to the upper Amazon basin of Ecuador, Columbia, and Peru. Texas-based ingredient ... habitat of native plants, animals, and ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...